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Business: Creating champions while developing values. At Soccer de Brazil, we not only develop future Australian soccer stars, we develop fine young adults for our community

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Join thousands of players who trust SDB’s methodology, backed by over 10 years of experience in helping local talent achieve their goals while improving Australia as a football nation.


We’re living in a world with an increasing lack of identity. Where you are influenced to follow everyone else and not encouraged to be authentically you.


Don’t let them steal your light. Take the challenge. Play with boldness.

You are not like the others. From your skills, your courage is born.

At SDB Academy, we want Australians to feel the same passion Brazilians have for soccer. Passion which beats from our hearts right through our bodies. Passion which fuels their hunger during training and as a result, fire up their performance and creativity. In soccer, passion & performance will always play together.

We have a never-ending commitment to provide our players with nothing but the best training experience. We work hard to continually improve, enhance and modernise our Football and Futsal curriculums by investing in knowledge and new talent. Our coaches regularly meet and participate in courses to stay ahead of the game and bring new concepts, training methodology and game strategies to the sessions.

Our Football and Futsal Academy in Sydney (NSW), Brisbane (QLD), Gold Coast (QLD) and Safety Bay (WA) will be provided with the highest-quality training in a team building, fun and performance focused environment. Designed to boost players’ skills, confidence and desire to win.

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247gk is unique Goalkeeper training. We are highly motivated and committed to provide total preparation and training to produce a complete modern Goalkeeper


We believe that every keeper should be a player first meaning that we pay attention to keepers feet to ensure he/she is as good (if not better) with the ball as any outfield player. Goalkeeper is not only the last line of defense but also first line of attack.

Our practices are designed to create game related situations and decision making process under pressure and intensity, because that’s what we do during the GAME.

Business: On the example of Endeavour School, this post compares complicated relationships between sports and secondary education in Australia and the USA.

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Do you know the most baffling thing for international students entering the US educational system? No, not the grading, electives, or lack of uniforms, but our obsession with school sports. “What’s wrong with that?” you might wonder, “Schools should be holistic, keep children active as well as educated.” And here is where I’m with you 100%. School kids benefit from sports exercises and also get valuable lessons in perseverance, team spirit, and sportsmanship.


Yet our approach is far from the balanced ideal of the Renaissance person – an eloquent essay writer, a brilliant mathematician, an inspired artist, and a capable athlete. Our problem is that we prioritize the latter over everything else. Exaggeration? Let’s see.


As I already pointed out, sport is indeed an essential part of secondary education – and this truth is universal. Schoolchildren around the world are encouraged to play sports as club activity after school or on weekends. Alternatively, they just enjoy pickup games in the fields and alleys as a part of afterschool fun. Yet, in the USA, sports seem central to our educational mission. At least, that’s the impression one gets if one looks at some of the more obvious flaws of our system.

Too often, sport is so entrenched into school life that people don’t realize the actual costs. Apart from coaching stipends to teachers or even full salaries for professional coaches, there are athletic supplies, insurance, maintaining the turf, etc. On top of that, the whole logistics for game days: bus drivers, meals, and hotels – for the team, the band, and the cheerleaders. For home games, there are still costs of hiring referees, providing security, preparing the field, and cleaning up afterward. And contrary to widespread belief, ticket and concession sales aren’t nearly enough to compensate for all this. It varies from community to community, but schools spend two to four times more on an average athlete than on an average math student – even in districts that are supposed to prioritize math!

Although many proponents of the current system insist that sport attracts kids who would otherwise forgo school and keeps them out of trouble, this is only true for a small percentage of students. However, others experience adverse effects of this approach. On top of hogging the ever-shrinking funds away from arts, humanities, and STEM, prioritizing sports harms academic achievement in less obvious ways. Often schools lower academic standards when hiring teachers only to be able to get a coach as well. The school calendar revolves around sporting events shifting focus from academics. This had found its hard evidence about a decade ago, when the superintendent brought to rescue one rural school district in Texas banned sports and almost doubled the number of students who passed their classes the very first semester.

The most notorious cases of prioritizing the glamor of athletic victories over academic achievements include underage steroid use scandals, college students masquerading as school kids to join school teams, and parents plotting the murder of their child’s rivals. That, of course, are extreme cases. However, there are smaller things that are as common as dirt. For example, improper grade changes. Many schools have a “no pass, no play” policy. It is supposed to motivate athletes. If they fail, they cannot compete, so to keep their spot on the team, they must hit the books or seek some arrangement with the teacher, like suggesting, “If I revise my essay or write another piece instead of the failed one, can it be a pass?” Yet too often, the grade improves magically just because coaches and administration preoccupied with the misunderstood “prestige” harass the teacher into rigging the grade.

Let’s admit it, the school day starts way too early. Teenagers in middle and high school are most prone to be “night owls” as opposed to younger kids and adults. Study after study shows that starting school day later improves academic achievement and mental well-being. Yet we keep demanding that our children woke up in what feels to them like an ungodly hour to be in class by 8 o’clock. Why? The primary reason is to make more space for sports practice. As a result, everyone suffers, so the school team could use more remaining daylight hours to the maximum. This doesn’t seem neither fair nor efficient.

All in all, I’d say we should revise our priorities here. Instead of seeing any limitations put on school sports as a sacrilege, why not do it the healthy way?